Holey Land 1 Fire
The Holey Land 1 Fire burned 9,200 acres in Palm Beach County, Florida, in 2013. It was discovered on May 13, 2013, and contained on May 17, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 9,200 acres
- Discovered
- May 13, 2013
- Contained
- May 17, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,813 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.366, -80.701.
The record
- Reported final size
- 9,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,813 acres
- Discovered
- May 13, 2013, 8:30 a.m. local time
- Contained
- May 17, 2013, 12:29 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Florida
- County
- Palm Beach County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2636608070120130513
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2013FLFLS2013180163
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 7, from May 13, 2013 to May 22, 2013. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 10 on May 13, 2013
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 1,800 acres, on May 14, 2013.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2013 | 6,100 | |
| May 14, 2013 | 7,900 | +1,800 |
| May 15, 2013 | 9,200 | +1,300 |
| May 16, 2013 | 9,200 | 0 |
| May 17, 2013 | 9,200 | 0 |
| May 20, 2013 | 9,200 | |
| May 22, 2013 | 9,200 |
Other large fires in Florida in 201311
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huckabee Fire | 20,300 | Mar 29, 2013 | Human |
| Low Key Fire | 5,100 | Mar 5, 2013 | Human |
| Center Fire | 2,349 | Apr 1, 2013 | Natural |
| Hopkins Prairie Fire | 1,918 | Mar 2, 2013 | Human |
| Triangle Fire | 1,662 | Apr 18, 2013 | |
| Texas Block (05) Nov Fire | 1,300 | Dec 5, 2013 | Human |
| 328 Ffs Fire | 1,244 | Apr 3, 2013 | Natural |
| Durrance Fire | 1,118 | Mar 2, 2013 | Human |
| May Day Fire | 900 | May 1, 2013 | Human |
| Buck #1 Fire | 819 | Jan 29, 2013 | Human |
| South Road Fire | 777 | Mar 29, 2013 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.